Police: 16 arrested as non-compliant sex offenders

Updated 6:01 pm, Thursday, May 17, 2018

NEW HAVEN — Sixteen individuals who are non-compliant sex offenders have been apprehended and arrested by the Violent Fugitive Task Force of the U.S. Marshals Service and the New Haven Police Department, according to a press release from the Marshals Service. Most of the arrests were made Thursday.

The individuals were the subjects of outstanding warrants charging them with failure to register as sex offender, failure to verify address as a sex offender, sexual assault, and violation of probation, the release said. All were taken to Superior Court in New Haven.

This was the seventh such operation the U.S. Marshals Service and New Haven Police Department have conducted since 2011, resulting in the arrest of more than 100 individuals in the area. Federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Connecticut State Probation, Connecticut State Parole and Connecticut State Police also participated in the operation, the release said.

The U.S. Marshals Service’s Sex Offender Investigative Unit and Detective Leonardo Soto of the New Haven police also did extensive investigation, the release said.

The following individuals were charged as follows, according to the release: